Wednesday, April 12, 2017

The great pumpkin harvest of 2017

There are a few things that really make it feel like autumn, and one of them is pumpkins!

Our son holding an Italian pumpkin variety called 'Tondo Padano'

Miss 4 holding an 'Orange Cutie'

Miss 1 holding a 'Sweet Dumpling'

Miss 10 holding the Australian classic 'Queensland Blue'

We have just finished getting all our pumpkins out of the garden and into storage in our 'cellar'. And what a haul we have had. I haven't weighed them all but there is plenty more than we need which is great!

We grew 9 different types of pumpkin, such a diversity in colours and shapes.

So my plan is to play around with adding pumpkin to more of our food, like the sourdough bread I bake every second day. Also things like pancakes and pikelets, fruit cakes, scones and I may even manage the American pumpkin pie.